Use Safe Area Layout programmatically

Question

Since I don't use storyboards to create my views, I was wondering if there's the "Use Safe Area Guides" option programmatically or something like that.

I've tried to anchor my views to

view.safeAreaLayoutGuide

but they keep overlapping the top notch in the iPhone X simulator.

Answer 1

You can use view.safeAreaInsets as explained here https://www.raywenderlich.com/174078/auto-layout-visual-format-language-tutorial-2

code sample (taken from raywenderlich.com):

override func viewSafeAreaInsetsDidChange() {
  super.viewSafeAreaInsetsDidChange()

  if !allConstraints.isEmpty {
    NSLayoutConstraint.deactivate(allConstraints)
    allConstraints.removeAll()
  }

  let newInsets = view.safeAreaInsets
  let leftMargin = newInsets.left > 0 ? newInsets.left : Metrics.padding
  let rightMargin = newInsets.right > 0 ? newInsets.right : Metrics.padding
  let topMargin = newInsets.top > 0 ? newInsets.top : Metrics.padding
  let bottomMargin = newInsets.bottom > 0 ? newInsets.bottom : Metrics.padding

  let metrics = [
    "horizontalPadding": Metrics.padding,
    "iconImageViewWidth": Metrics.iconImageViewWidth,
    "topMargin": topMargin,
    "bottomMargin": bottomMargin,
    "leftMargin": leftMargin,
    "rightMargin": rightMargin]
}


let views: [String: Any] = [
  "iconImageView": iconImageView,
  "appNameLabel": appNameLabel,
  "skipButton": skipButton,
  "appImageView": appImageView,
  "welcomeLabel": welcomeLabel,
  "summaryLabel": summaryLabel,
  "pageControl": pageControl]

let iconVerticalConstraints = NSLayoutConstraint.constraints(
  withVisualFormat: "V:|-topMargin-[iconImageView(30)]",
  metrics: metrics,
  views: views)
allConstraints += iconVerticalConstraints

let topRowHorizontalFormat = """
  H:|-leftMargin-[iconImageView(iconImageViewWidth)]-[appNameLabel]-[skipButton]-rightMargin-|
  """
...

Answer 2

I'm actually using an extension for it and controlling if it is ios 11 or not.

extension UIView {

  var safeTopAnchor: NSLayoutYAxisAnchor {
    if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
      return self.safeAreaLayoutGuide.topAnchor
    } else {
      return self.topAnchor
    }
  }

  var safeLeftAnchor: NSLayoutXAxisAnchor {
    if #available(iOS 11.0, *){
      return self.safeAreaLayoutGuide.leftAnchor
    }else {
      return self.leftAnchor
    }
  }

  var safeRightAnchor: NSLayoutXAxisAnchor {
    if #available(iOS 11.0, *){
      return self.safeAreaLayoutGuide.rightAnchor
    }else {
      return self.rightAnchor
    }
  }

  var safeBottomAnchor: NSLayoutYAxisAnchor {
    if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
      return self.safeAreaLayoutGuide.bottomAnchor
    } else {
      return self.bottomAnchor
    }
  }
}

Answer 3

Safe area extension For Objective-C

@implementation UIView (SafeArea)

- (NSLayoutAnchor *)safeTopAnchor{

    if (@available(iOS 11.0, *)){
        return self.safeAreaLayoutGuide.topAnchor;
    } else {
        return self.topAnchor;
    }

}


- (NSLayoutAnchor *)safeBottomAnchor{

    if (@available(iOS 11.0, *)) {
        return self.safeAreaLayoutGuide.bottomAnchor;
    } else {
        return self.bottomAnchor;
    }

}

@end